Record Data
Source citation
William Still, The Underground Rail Road (Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1872), 286.
Type
Letter
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Michael Blake
Transcription date
Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as true to the original written document as possible. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
9 mo. 26th, 1856.
RESPECTED FRIEND:-WILLIAM STILL, I send on to thy care this evening by Rail Road, 5 able-bodied men, on their way North; receive them as the Good Samaritan of old and oblige thy friend, THOMAS GARRETT.